DPP to determine pastor’s fate

Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony McLaughlin says the police are currently awaiting a ruling from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide the fate of St Ann pastor Peter Chambers.

The clergyman remains in custody after he was picked up from his Orange Hill, Brown's Town, home on Wednesday morning. He was detained after a video of him making comments about Prime Minister Andrew Holness and members of his family surfaced on social media.

Opposing the church

"That man affi dead, me nuh care what nobody want to say him have to go down. The PM has to go down, this man is attacking the church, opposing the church and I don't care what nobody want to say because me nuh fraid a none a unuh."

"He was picked up based on the video that he has circulating, relative to the prime minister. There were about three videos which we think he should have been questioned about. We believe that we could have questioned the video based on Section Nine under the Cybercrimes Act," McLaughlin told THE WEEKEND STAR. That section of the Act deals with malicious communication. Since Chambers' detention, many Jamaicans, including other clergymen, have expressed shock at his comments.